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| MEMCACHED_GENERATE_HASH_VALUE(3) | libmemcached-awesome | MEMCACHED_GENERATE_HASH_VALUE(3) |
NAME¶
memcached_generate_hash_value - Generating hash values directly
Hash a key value
SYNOPSIS¶
- #include <libmemcached/memcached.h>
- Compile and link with -lmemcachedutil -lmemcached
- key -- the key to generate a hash of
- key_length -- the length of the key without any terminating zero
- hash_algorithm -- memcached_hash_t, the algorithm to use
- Returns
- a 32 bit hash value
- ptr -- pointer to an initialized memcached_st struct
- key -- the key to generate a hash of
- key_length -- the length of the key without any terminating zero
- Returns
- a 32 bit hash value
DESCRIPTION¶
memcached_generate_hash_value() allows you to hash a key using one of the hash functions defined in the library. This method is provided for the convenience of higher-level language bindings and is not necessary for normal memcache operations.
Support for MEMCACHED_HASH_HSIEH is a compile time option that is disabled by default. To enable tests for this hashing algorithm, configure and build libmemcached with the Hsieh hash enabled.
memcached_generate_hash() takes a memcached_st structure and produces the hash value that would have been generated based on the defaults of memcached_st.
As of version 0.36 all hash methods have been placed into the library libhashkit(3) which is linked with libmemcached(3). For more information please see its documentation.
RETURN VALUE¶
A 32-bit integer which is the result of hashing the given key. For 64-bit hash algorithms, only the least-significant 32 bits are returned.
SEE ALSO¶
| November 12, 2021 | 1.1 |